Local history and legends

On thispage we will add facts and legends involving Denmark, TN. and surrounding area.

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We are seeking pictures or articles concerning the cyclone (tornado) that struck the Denmark, TN. area on October 14, 1909.

Allen Hill's marker is located by his grave in the old and well maintained Hill Cemetery located off of Steam Mill Ferry road.

The 1831-1842 Tennessee State Prison Record Book contains the following record.

"John A. Murrell was received in the Penitentiary August seventeenth one thousand eight hundred and thirty four; he is five feet ten inches and a half in height and weighs from one hundred and fifty eight to one hundred and seventy pounds; dark hair, blue eyes, long nose and much pitted with small pox; tolerably fair complexion; twenty-eight years of age. Born in Lunenburgh County, Virginia and brought up in Williamson County, Tennessee, his mother, wife and two children reside in the neighborhood of Denmark about nine miles from Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee. His wife's maiden name was Mangham; her connexion reside on the waters of South Harpeth, Williamson Co.,Tenn.His brother Wm. S. Murrell, a Druggist, resides in Cincinnati, Ohio; he has another brother living in Sumpter County, S. Carolina; he has a scar on the middle joint of the finger next to the little finger of his left hand and one on the middle finger of the same hand; a scar on the inside of the end of the finger next the little finger of the right hand; has generally followed farming; was found guilty of Negro stealing at the Circuit Court of Madison County and sentenced to Ten years confinement in the jail and penitentiary House of the State of Tennessee."(1831-1842 Prison Record Book, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN)

This state historical marker is located outside of Jackson, TN. on RT. 70 about a mile from the intersection of RT. 70 (Airways Blvd.) and RT. 223

Haywood County Museum in Brownsville, TN. is packed with historic items relative to the local area's past.

A replica of the Confederate falg created by the ladies of Dancyville and presented to The Dancyville Grays before they marched off to fight in the Civil War in 1861. They later became Confederate Company A 9th. Tennessee Infantry.

This is a letter from Sarah Springfield Cross and her husband to Thomas Springfield from 1836.

Supplied to the BBCHA by Sarah Perry

The final resting place of Thomas Springfield, this letter was sent to him.